> Open questions: Earlier that year Oswald attempted to kill General Walker and almost succeeded. Did the CIA put him up to that as well?
IIRC the LHO-patsy theory goes along the lines that LHO had nothing to do with any of the shootings including Walker.
IIRC LHO was never formally charged with shooting Walker and so never got a chance to defend himself in court from this (never-formalized, not to mention never convicted) accusation.
Due to the amount of obfuscation surrounding the jfk assassination, oswald’s widow’s testimony should be discounted as possibly tainted. she was alone with a kid and financially vulnerable to being bribed to say whatever she was paid to say. and in any case, it is hearsay since she was not a firsthand witness to any shooting.
The fact that some people seem to take it as a fact that LHO shot Walker is just an indicator of how deep the USA public has been brainwashed into believing the LHOLN theory and discredited all competing theories as “conspiracy theory.”
“Conspiracy theory” as a pejorative has its origin in the aftermath of the JFK assassination.
Why did he miss an easy shot? (pg. 692)—“the double window through which the bullet was fired had a wooden frame running horizontally in the middle of it. The police saw that the bullet had struck the upper portion of the window frame near the center of the locking mechanism… thus deflecting the bullet”
Also: Walker realized later (in considering how LHO missed) that the glare of the light in the room would have blurred the window sash. This is especially true in using a telescope, the sash would not have been visible to the shooter.
Ballistics – Robert Frazier, FBI ballistics export examined both the slug found at the Walker house and those taken from the rifle used by LHO. His testimony (694) was not definitive due to the poor shape of the Walker slug. He did say the rifling marks were identical to those of a Manicher-Carcano rifle (“Four lands and grooves with a right twist”). He could not definitively say it came from the same gun.
Marina Oswald statement -- Marina described the day of the event and days after. LHO told her he did it. She also found a notebook with maps, bus schedules, drawings and photographs of Walker’s house. LHO was going to keep it. She told him to burn it, which he did (pg. 693-694).